Still carry on

Helaman 6

I couldn't help but think of a chain while reading this chapter.

I remember in my missionary homecoming talk I spoke of life as a chain, and I brought a visual chain link I had made out of construction paper. I spoke of our ancestry and our posterity. I spoke of the importance of staying strong so that the chain did not break.

As I read this chapter and was reminded of the Gadianton robbers and their secret works...and how those works kept affecting their posterities...

"Yea, it is that same being who put it into the heart of Gadianton to still carry on the work of darkness...and behold, it is he who is the author of all sin...he doth carry on his works of darkness and secret murder, and doth hand down their plots, and their oaths, and their covenants, and their plans of awful wickedness, from generation to generation according as he can get hold upon the hearts of the children of men" (6:29-30).

...I couldn't help but think of the chains of abuse.
All it takes is for one person who has been abused, to commit to not "still carry on" that abuse.

To get help, counseling, find peace.
To vow to never turn your rage from what has happened onto someone else.
To break that chain of abuse from going on further.

I completely understand this principle. And live by it.
I loved this analogy.